200 Challenge: Goal time, roadmap and status updates
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This thread is for people to post their goals for the 200 (in any stroke), outline how they plan to get there, progress updates and to get feed back on their plans and updates.
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And it isn't as if I'm way off race pace, either: in the 5 x 200 test set I'll average maybe 2 sec slower than I would swim a 200 at a meet at that time.
YMMV.
I think that you are unique in that regard. When I do 3 or 4 200's on 8 minutes I am atleast 10 seconds off race pace. Do you wear a tech suit when you do it? I sometimes wear an aquablade and come within 3-4 seconds of race pace. Maybe I should wear my new Amphibian Jammer when I do this set.
I also tend to agree with Ehoch that doing timed 200's is good training for the 400 (or 500) more than the 200 itself. I like this set for training for 200's:
4 or 5 300's broken up like this:
75 at the pace you want to take your 200 out in
25 easy (like pull on the ropes easy)
200 keeping long smooth stroke.
Dave Salo posted this set somewhere or another. If you want to go under 1:50 in the 200 then you need to go 1:52 in season. 54.0 / 57.9 is how I would split it (not recommending this, just how I would do it). This means to do the 75's in just under 40.5.
And it isn't as if I'm way off race pace, either: in the 5 x 200 test set I'll average maybe 2 sec slower than I would swim a 200 at a meet at that time.
YMMV.
I think that you are unique in that regard. When I do 3 or 4 200's on 8 minutes I am atleast 10 seconds off race pace. Do you wear a tech suit when you do it? I sometimes wear an aquablade and come within 3-4 seconds of race pace. Maybe I should wear my new Amphibian Jammer when I do this set.
I also tend to agree with Ehoch that doing timed 200's is good training for the 400 (or 500) more than the 200 itself. I like this set for training for 200's:
4 or 5 300's broken up like this:
75 at the pace you want to take your 200 out in
25 easy (like pull on the ropes easy)
200 keeping long smooth stroke.
Dave Salo posted this set somewhere or another. If you want to go under 1:50 in the 200 then you need to go 1:52 in season. 54.0 / 57.9 is how I would split it (not recommending this, just how I would do it). This means to do the 75's in just under 40.5.
